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Do you know what I was told by that lying, laughing bastard still trembling in the corner back in the kitchen where knives are strung like teeth on a string tied around a pearl neck? You are such a dear, like my friend Madness sinking back in his chair to watch the show of dancing dancing ...

A light shines at the end of the road Mother Should I reach for it Or will you leave? Mother You go and you hold onto it And I shriek a feminist laughter Yes dear mother, Adieu On the seventh day without sun, like sea He abandoned you Mother I was home and wondered where you were. ...

—I believe, to a certain extent, that we are deeply troubled in the mind. I mean, if you look at modern culture—YouTube, CNN, the children of future generations—clearly we are all disturbed. And even though we cannot quite see it, as the change has been subtle and slow, that life-ticking bomb ...

He sheaths his katana against the overwhelming waves. His ten or so men stand behind him, ready to obey his command. The wind blows their loose, cotton clothes, as if it is exalting them as heroes. The battle outcome has already been decided. They will be drowned by the onslaught of men and sweat.
...

It was always raining.
The sky persisted in grey. He knew this, yet still struggled to survive on a pinprick of hops. They told him that as long as there were humans, there would be no peace. Perhaps. But he kept trying to break the curse, holding tight to the fire that seemed infinite.
His fr...

It is not a mystery as to how the government could entirely shutdown without evoking violence and crazed riots from Americans. The simple explanation is: political party stagnation and public apathy. The evolution of our political system closely follows the needs of the people. In history, prior to ...

As ObamaCare has started, the government has halted—at least, temporarily. Republicans, whose opposition to large federal government involvement is deeply rooted in history, stand against the enforcement of ObamaCare. They believe that healthcare should be left up to the states, which use money gi...

The evilness behind money goes back through history, maintaining an unwavering ideal: money corrupts. Religion in particular targets money and associates it with the Devil. In Vatican City, the Pope openly denounced money, claiming it was the “root of all evil”. Among all of the sins, the Pope p...

What is it about scary movies that is so appealing to us? Of course, cinematic fear is fleeting. It cannot touch our surface of reality. Therefore, we love horror movies.
Fear is a popular and common theme in books and movies. But in reality, fear hardly touches many of our lives. It is a distan...

Our future relies heavily on analyzing literature—how could we survive without it? First and foremost, we must define literature. Literature is not simply a novel of fiction; it can be anything written in a language, communicated to other people. We are always analyzing subconsciously.
Of cours...

Murderers spawn from the mind, not the soul, rendering them impossible to understand. Yet, society still struggles to comprehend their actions. What makes a man turn a gun to innocent, young children of an elementary school in Connecticut? Or any other place for that matter? The widely accepted evil...

A pernicious virus plagues
The world we fail to know
Bending our minds to dictators
Who demand the impossible.
Inevitable infections, vanquished vaccination
Leaves us with but much to endure
Under weight that fails to be locked away
Back breaking, it is, back breaking, I say.
An exponent...

She wants to scream at them, and tell them that she is here, existing in front of their faces. Her voice constricts before she can get out a single word. The facts are lain out clearly in front of those who want to see. Nobody wants to see. They only want to look. She cannot articulate emotions. He...

Water rushes pass my ears
wind rushes upon my back with wild vigor
and rose petals leap to be nominal saviors
I sing with it all
Without moving my lips, a melody of sweetness and pensive lost
in decay upon my audience’s ears.
Splashing in the water are the naïve little tadpoles
fluttering ...

Whispers
Tingle up my spine, conducive to give away
My secret.
Hush
Before pristine becomes culpable
And the eyes that pinpoint souls
Begin to dart unconsciously.
Hush
As the night falls into the earth’s abyss
And everlasting light becomes fatal
So we must shield ourselves from revelatio...

He was a man. His body had arms, legs, hands, and feet. His face was handsome and alluring, his actions were performed without error, a consummate art. And the mind controlling them had a kind of power hungry discernment, a dangerous but perspicacious machine. The gears and teeth meshed in harmony. ...

On this wooden bench, sitting among standing
waves of people soar by this silence of screeching metal needles
imprinted in skin, etched in flesh.
I see a faded gray girl on a torn sheet of soul, not a trace of red.
She stares at me, past all those trivialities—
her eyes are black orbs with...

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